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SCADA and Central Applications
An introduction
Course map
Outline of the lecture
• Power System Operation
- Centralised Control Applications - an example
• SCADA
- SCADA architecture & Components
- SCADA system functions
- Non functional aspects
Power System Operation
• System-wide monitoring, planning & optimisation
for reliable and cost efficient operation of the
power system
• Time scale: seconds to hours.
Normal
Alerted
Emergency
Restorative
Deregulation– in theory
Wholesale level - Transmission
GenCo GenCo GenCo GenCo
Retailer Retailer
Retail level - Distribution
Customer Customer Customer Customer
Customer
Deregulation – in practice
Area 1
Area 2
Area 5
Area 3
Area 4
Coordination between actors
Example – root event
1.Step-up transformer
insulation fault
2.Fault is detected by
protection system
3.Trip signal sent to
breaker to disconnect
generator
1.
2.
3.
TSO – Frequency control	

TSO – Maintenence
TSO - Frequency Control
1. Frequency dip detected at
generators committed to
Load Frequency Control
leads to automatic
increase of output
2. Continuous under-
frequency measured are
sent to SCADA system
using IEC 60870-5-101
3. Control room operator
activates secondary
reserve by issuing order
to GenCo via phone.
4. GenCo orders production
increase in secondary
reserve.
5. Order for production
increase sent to plant
from GenCo CC.
6. New measurements sent
to neighbouring Grid
Utility using ICCP.
2.
3.
1.
1.
1.
4.
5
6.
TSO
GenCO
TSO- Repair & Maintenance
1.
2.
3.
4.
1. Fault in transformer sent
from SCADA system to work
management system using
e.g. IEC 61968-4
2. Repair crew sent to site
from work dispatch
3. At site, work crew reports
to control centre to initiate
safe switching sequences
4. Station set to manual
control, fault repaired (!) or
report initiated for major
overhaul.
5. After completed
assignment, info on failure
stored in maintenance
database.
5.
Central control & coordination
• On the deregulated Power market, all actors
- Distribution Network Operators
- Transmission Network Operators
- Generating companies
• All need some central platform to manage their
assets dispersed across large areas.
• Enter – the SCADA system
Outline of the lecture
• Power System Operation
- Centralised Control Applications
• SCADA
- SCADA architecture & Components
- SCADA system functions
- Non functional aspects
Power System Control Center Functionality
•Three groups of functions on SCADA
-Business Management
-Energy Management
-Generation management
SCADA
BMS EMS GMS
What is SCADA?
Supervisory Control And Data Acquistion
- Collect measurements and status data from the process
- Remotely intervene in the process
- Centralized system platform
- Based on distributed I/O
Applicable Processes
- Oil or Gas prodcution facilities
- Piplelines for gas, oils, chemicals or water.
- Railway/Transportation Process
- Nuclear, Gas, Hyrdo generation plants
The typical control room
What is controlled by SCADA
• Tap changers
• Switching devices
• Shunt capacitor/reactor
• Generator setpoints
• Excitation & power output
• Sequential control
SCADA architecture
Reference: C37.1-2007 IEEE Standard for SCADA and Automation Systems
SCADA Components
Human Machine Interface - HMI
• Communication between operator
and machine
• Input
- Mouse, keyboard, touch screen
• Output
- Screen, audio, print-outs or mimic board
• A weak link
- Information overload/misinterpretation
SCADA components
Application Servers
• Application servers provide the computing platform for
the SCADA System, included servers are:
- Real-time database
- Historical database
- Energy Management applications
• State Estimation
• Optimal/Dispatcher Powerflow
• Voltage Stability Assessment
• Etc….
- Geographic Information Systems
• Distribution Management
SCADA Components
System Configuration Servers
• Allows configuration of the SCADA system
environment, typical servers include:
- Data engineering of the SCADA system providing manual
data entry into the SCADA topology database including
lidnes, circuitbreakers, stations, …..
- SubstationdDevice configuration, such as IED
configuration tools and databses of IED configuration.
Remote access tools for configuration
Data Engineering
DE 400
Forms
Data Entry
Import
Customer's
Data Source
RUN TIME ENVIRONMENT
Oracle
MDB
Picture
generator Picture files
Avanti
PDB
A-
Sta
dt
B-
Do
rf
C-
Haus
en
RUN TIME ENVIRONMENT
Graphical Editor
Data Loading
Present
ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT
Data Engineering
DE 400
Forms
Data Entry
Import
Customer's
Data Source
RUN TIME ENVIRONMENT
Oracle
MDB
Picture
generator Picture files
Avanti
PDB
A-
Sta
dt
B-
Do
rf
C-
Haus
en
RUN TIME ENVIRONMENT
Graphical Editor
Data Loading
Present
ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT
SCADA components
Communication Servers
• Variety of servers for communication
- Communication to other Control centers using ICCP
- Communication to office applications
SCADA components
Communication Front End
• Manages communication with the field devices
• Supports communication with variety of protocols
• Cyclic polling and event based communication, provides
messages queuing
SCADA Components
Remote Terminal Unit - RTU
• A remote terminal unit (RTU) is a microprocessors-
controlled electronic device that interfaces objects in the
physical world to a distributed control systems or SCADA
by transmitting telemetry data to the system, and by
using messages from the supervisory system to control
connected objects.
Communication Topologies
• Radial serial circuit
• Multi-drop circuit
Reference: C37.1-2007 IEEE Standard for SCADA and Automation Systems
Networked solutions
Communication between Master Station (Front End) is
via TCP/IP over a shared Wide Are Network
Reference: C37.1-2007 IEEE Standard for SCADA and Automation Systems
Communication Principles
• Cyclic Polling
- Front-End communication server requests data periodically
from each RTU.
- Period times vary from 2-4 up to 10-15 seconds.
- Real-time?
• Report By Exception
- Cyclic polling as above
- RTU only responds if a value has changed
• Balanced protocols
- The RTU can send a request to be polled by the Front-End
Communication
• Wide Area Network
- Analog point to point and multi-point modem networks
- Frame relay/Cell relay type point to point and multi-point
networks
- Wireless Radio/Satellite networks
- Fiber-optic based networks
• Protocols
- Modbus
- Profibus
- IEC60870-5-101,104
- DNP 3
- IEC61850-90-2
- IEC60870-6-ICCP (between control centers)
Distributed Network Protocol (DNP)
•Designed specifically for SCADA systems, i.e. a data
acquisition and control communication protocol
•Predominantly a SCADA to RTU/IED or RTU/IED to
RTU/IED communication
•Used in Electric automation and prominent in the
North and South America, Australia
•Open Standard, not owned or control by a single
private organization. All vendors have a say in the
design and specification
IEC 60870-5-101/104
• International standards for open transmission of SCADA telemetry
and control information
• Provides detailed functional description for telecontrol equipment
and systems for controlling geographically widespread processes
and specifically intended for electrical industries
• When reference to 60870-5 in the context of SCADA systems is
made it is usually for 60870-5-101/104 titled “Companion
Standard for basic telecontrol tasks.
• 101 protocol intended for transport of data over serial links
• 104 protocol is a TCP/IP implementation of 101.
101 & 104 message types
101 & 104 message types - control
IEC 60870-6
• Inter Control-center Protocol (ICCP) or TASE.2
• To enable data exchange between control centers of:
- Measurements
- Time-tagged data, measurement series
- Events
• Some variants exist, latest version TASE.2 based on
MMS most popular presently.
IEC 61850-90-2
• Using Logical Nodes and Attributes from IEC 61850 also in
the SCADA system.
• Data is carried in MMS over TCP/IP
Outline of the lecture
• Power System Operation
- Centralised Control Applications
• SCADA
- SCADA architecture & Components
- SCADA system functions
- Non functional aspects
SCADA functions
• Data acquisition
• Analog and discrete values
• Event and alarm processing
• Event and alarm
• Control
• Tap changer
• Shut capacitor/reactor
• Switching devices
• Generator excitation (AGC)
• Data storage, archiving and analysis
Data acquisition
• Points
- Measured values
• Pseudo points
- Derived values
• Scan
- process by which data
acquisition system
interrogates RTU/IED
• Scanning rate
- 1 sample/2 seconds
• Time skew
- elapsed time between the
first measurement and the
final measurement is
taken
Reference: North-Corte Green Control & Automation of Electric Power Distribution Systems
SCADA: Data Acquisition (Cont.)
• Measurements and Status Indications Collected are
stored in a Real Time Database.
• The Values are Time tagged in the database.
• As new Values come in from the RTUs/IEDs old values
are overwritten (or archived).
Monitoring and Event Processing
• Events
• Changing positions
• Breaker / Disconnector opens or closes
• Value above/below a threshold
• Equipment activated
• Reactor or capacitor engaged
• Automatic changes
• On load tap changer changes state
• Alarms
• Critical events
• It is a matter of definition
Alarm and Event Management
Alarm list
Event list
Breaker
opens ?
Event and alarm
• Events
• Changing positions
– Breaker/Disconnector opens or closes
– Value above/below a threshold
• Equipment activated
– Reactor or capacitor engaged
• Automatic changes
– tap changer changes its position
• Alarms
– Criticality
– Sensitivity
Monitoring and Event Processing (cont.)
Reference: North-Corte Green Control & Automation of Electric Power Distribution Systems
Time stamping
• Sequence of events is often important in analysis of
chains of events
• Time stamping of Events
- As close as possible to the source. For example the IED
that collected the measurement
- Requires time synchronisation of distributed devices
- Additional Time-stamp at Front-End
SCADA: Data Storage, Archiving and
Analysis
• Data Collected from the process is sometimes
archived, this due to many reasons:
• Regulations
• Billing
• Future Load planning
• Performance Audits
• Post Mortem Review, in case of disturbances or
interruptions in the process.
• Changed Values are “archived” at cyclic intervals,
the interval depends on the importance of the
values. Examples of cyclic intervals are: every scan
interval, every 10 seconds or every hour.
Sequence of Events recorders
• Local function implemented in Substation Controller
that keeps a record of all events in the substation
• Not all events are sent to the SCADA system
• SER logfiles can be uploaded to the SCADA system to
enable analysis
SCADA: Control Functions
• Individual Device Control
• Direct open/close commands to individual devices
• Check-back before Operate function.
• Control Messages to Regulating Equipment
• E.g. Raising or lowering tap changer taps
• Sequential Control
• E.g. in the case of a set of sequential switching steps
to restore power through predefined backup
configuration.
• Automatic Control
• Triggered by an event of lapse of specific time period
that invokes a control actions
• E.g. automatically changing load tab changer due to
voltage set point violation
Outline of the lecture
• Power System Operation
- Centralised Control Applications
• SCADA
- SCADA architecture & Components
- SCADA system functions
- Non functional aspects
Non functional requirements
Functional requirements specifies what is a system
suppose to do and Non functional requirements
specifies how a system should behave.
• Availability
- the ratio of uptime to the sum of downtime and uptime.
• Maintainability
- Repairing time for hardware and software
• Scalability
- How easy the system could be expand
• Security
- See SCADA security guest lecture
• Interoperability/Openess
- how easy can the system be integrated with systems
from other vendors
Measurement Service Performance
Requirements
Reference: C37.1-2007 IEEE Standard for SCADA and Automation Systems
Non functional requirements
- Performance
• Desired response time should be designed for each SCADA
function. These response time should comply with power
system control and operation procedure.
- Normal state, quasi-steady-state. Response time should meet
the requirements during normal state.
- Emergency state, when power system operation constraints
are violated. SCADA system are engineered to one specific
emergency condition without degrading the performance.
Normal
status
Emergency
status
Restoration
status
Status Update Performance Requirements
Reference: C37.1-2007 IEEE Standard for SCADA and Automation Systems
Status Update Performance Requirements
Reference: C37.1-2007 IEEE Standard for SCADA and Automation Systems

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Lecture+9+-+SCADA+Systems.pdf

  • 1. SCADA and Central Applications An introduction
  • 3. Outline of the lecture • Power System Operation - Centralised Control Applications - an example • SCADA - SCADA architecture & Components - SCADA system functions - Non functional aspects
  • 4. Power System Operation • System-wide monitoring, planning & optimisation for reliable and cost efficient operation of the power system • Time scale: seconds to hours. Normal Alerted Emergency Restorative
  • 5. Deregulation– in theory Wholesale level - Transmission GenCo GenCo GenCo GenCo Retailer Retailer Retail level - Distribution Customer Customer Customer Customer Customer
  • 6. Deregulation – in practice Area 1 Area 2 Area 5 Area 3 Area 4
  • 8. Example – root event 1.Step-up transformer insulation fault 2.Fault is detected by protection system 3.Trip signal sent to breaker to disconnect generator 1. 2. 3. TSO – Frequency control TSO – Maintenence
  • 9. TSO - Frequency Control 1. Frequency dip detected at generators committed to Load Frequency Control leads to automatic increase of output 2. Continuous under- frequency measured are sent to SCADA system using IEC 60870-5-101 3. Control room operator activates secondary reserve by issuing order to GenCo via phone. 4. GenCo orders production increase in secondary reserve. 5. Order for production increase sent to plant from GenCo CC. 6. New measurements sent to neighbouring Grid Utility using ICCP. 2. 3. 1. 1. 1. 4. 5 6. TSO GenCO
  • 10. TSO- Repair & Maintenance 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. Fault in transformer sent from SCADA system to work management system using e.g. IEC 61968-4 2. Repair crew sent to site from work dispatch 3. At site, work crew reports to control centre to initiate safe switching sequences 4. Station set to manual control, fault repaired (!) or report initiated for major overhaul. 5. After completed assignment, info on failure stored in maintenance database. 5.
  • 11. Central control & coordination • On the deregulated Power market, all actors - Distribution Network Operators - Transmission Network Operators - Generating companies • All need some central platform to manage their assets dispersed across large areas. • Enter – the SCADA system
  • 12. Outline of the lecture • Power System Operation - Centralised Control Applications • SCADA - SCADA architecture & Components - SCADA system functions - Non functional aspects
  • 13. Power System Control Center Functionality •Three groups of functions on SCADA -Business Management -Energy Management -Generation management SCADA BMS EMS GMS
  • 14. What is SCADA? Supervisory Control And Data Acquistion - Collect measurements and status data from the process - Remotely intervene in the process - Centralized system platform - Based on distributed I/O Applicable Processes - Oil or Gas prodcution facilities - Piplelines for gas, oils, chemicals or water. - Railway/Transportation Process - Nuclear, Gas, Hyrdo generation plants
  • 16. What is controlled by SCADA • Tap changers • Switching devices • Shunt capacitor/reactor • Generator setpoints • Excitation & power output • Sequential control
  • 17. SCADA architecture Reference: C37.1-2007 IEEE Standard for SCADA and Automation Systems
  • 18. SCADA Components Human Machine Interface - HMI • Communication between operator and machine • Input - Mouse, keyboard, touch screen • Output - Screen, audio, print-outs or mimic board • A weak link - Information overload/misinterpretation
  • 19. SCADA components Application Servers • Application servers provide the computing platform for the SCADA System, included servers are: - Real-time database - Historical database - Energy Management applications • State Estimation • Optimal/Dispatcher Powerflow • Voltage Stability Assessment • Etc…. - Geographic Information Systems • Distribution Management
  • 20. SCADA Components System Configuration Servers • Allows configuration of the SCADA system environment, typical servers include: - Data engineering of the SCADA system providing manual data entry into the SCADA topology database including lidnes, circuitbreakers, stations, ….. - SubstationdDevice configuration, such as IED configuration tools and databses of IED configuration. Remote access tools for configuration
  • 21. Data Engineering DE 400 Forms Data Entry Import Customer's Data Source RUN TIME ENVIRONMENT Oracle MDB Picture generator Picture files Avanti PDB A- Sta dt B- Do rf C- Haus en RUN TIME ENVIRONMENT Graphical Editor Data Loading Present ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT
  • 22. Data Engineering DE 400 Forms Data Entry Import Customer's Data Source RUN TIME ENVIRONMENT Oracle MDB Picture generator Picture files Avanti PDB A- Sta dt B- Do rf C- Haus en RUN TIME ENVIRONMENT Graphical Editor Data Loading Present ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT
  • 23. SCADA components Communication Servers • Variety of servers for communication - Communication to other Control centers using ICCP - Communication to office applications
  • 24. SCADA components Communication Front End • Manages communication with the field devices • Supports communication with variety of protocols • Cyclic polling and event based communication, provides messages queuing
  • 25. SCADA Components Remote Terminal Unit - RTU • A remote terminal unit (RTU) is a microprocessors- controlled electronic device that interfaces objects in the physical world to a distributed control systems or SCADA by transmitting telemetry data to the system, and by using messages from the supervisory system to control connected objects.
  • 26. Communication Topologies • Radial serial circuit • Multi-drop circuit Reference: C37.1-2007 IEEE Standard for SCADA and Automation Systems
  • 27. Networked solutions Communication between Master Station (Front End) is via TCP/IP over a shared Wide Are Network Reference: C37.1-2007 IEEE Standard for SCADA and Automation Systems
  • 28. Communication Principles • Cyclic Polling - Front-End communication server requests data periodically from each RTU. - Period times vary from 2-4 up to 10-15 seconds. - Real-time? • Report By Exception - Cyclic polling as above - RTU only responds if a value has changed • Balanced protocols - The RTU can send a request to be polled by the Front-End
  • 29. Communication • Wide Area Network - Analog point to point and multi-point modem networks - Frame relay/Cell relay type point to point and multi-point networks - Wireless Radio/Satellite networks - Fiber-optic based networks • Protocols - Modbus - Profibus - IEC60870-5-101,104 - DNP 3 - IEC61850-90-2 - IEC60870-6-ICCP (between control centers)
  • 30. Distributed Network Protocol (DNP) •Designed specifically for SCADA systems, i.e. a data acquisition and control communication protocol •Predominantly a SCADA to RTU/IED or RTU/IED to RTU/IED communication •Used in Electric automation and prominent in the North and South America, Australia •Open Standard, not owned or control by a single private organization. All vendors have a say in the design and specification
  • 31. IEC 60870-5-101/104 • International standards for open transmission of SCADA telemetry and control information • Provides detailed functional description for telecontrol equipment and systems for controlling geographically widespread processes and specifically intended for electrical industries • When reference to 60870-5 in the context of SCADA systems is made it is usually for 60870-5-101/104 titled “Companion Standard for basic telecontrol tasks. • 101 protocol intended for transport of data over serial links • 104 protocol is a TCP/IP implementation of 101.
  • 32. 101 & 104 message types
  • 33. 101 & 104 message types - control
  • 34. IEC 60870-6 • Inter Control-center Protocol (ICCP) or TASE.2 • To enable data exchange between control centers of: - Measurements - Time-tagged data, measurement series - Events • Some variants exist, latest version TASE.2 based on MMS most popular presently.
  • 35. IEC 61850-90-2 • Using Logical Nodes and Attributes from IEC 61850 also in the SCADA system. • Data is carried in MMS over TCP/IP
  • 36. Outline of the lecture • Power System Operation - Centralised Control Applications • SCADA - SCADA architecture & Components - SCADA system functions - Non functional aspects
  • 37. SCADA functions • Data acquisition • Analog and discrete values • Event and alarm processing • Event and alarm • Control • Tap changer • Shut capacitor/reactor • Switching devices • Generator excitation (AGC) • Data storage, archiving and analysis
  • 38. Data acquisition • Points - Measured values • Pseudo points - Derived values • Scan - process by which data acquisition system interrogates RTU/IED • Scanning rate - 1 sample/2 seconds • Time skew - elapsed time between the first measurement and the final measurement is taken Reference: North-Corte Green Control & Automation of Electric Power Distribution Systems
  • 39. SCADA: Data Acquisition (Cont.) • Measurements and Status Indications Collected are stored in a Real Time Database. • The Values are Time tagged in the database. • As new Values come in from the RTUs/IEDs old values are overwritten (or archived).
  • 40. Monitoring and Event Processing • Events • Changing positions • Breaker / Disconnector opens or closes • Value above/below a threshold • Equipment activated • Reactor or capacitor engaged • Automatic changes • On load tap changer changes state • Alarms • Critical events • It is a matter of definition
  • 41. Alarm and Event Management Alarm list Event list Breaker opens ?
  • 42. Event and alarm • Events • Changing positions – Breaker/Disconnector opens or closes – Value above/below a threshold • Equipment activated – Reactor or capacitor engaged • Automatic changes – tap changer changes its position • Alarms – Criticality – Sensitivity
  • 43. Monitoring and Event Processing (cont.) Reference: North-Corte Green Control & Automation of Electric Power Distribution Systems
  • 44. Time stamping • Sequence of events is often important in analysis of chains of events • Time stamping of Events - As close as possible to the source. For example the IED that collected the measurement - Requires time synchronisation of distributed devices - Additional Time-stamp at Front-End
  • 45. SCADA: Data Storage, Archiving and Analysis • Data Collected from the process is sometimes archived, this due to many reasons: • Regulations • Billing • Future Load planning • Performance Audits • Post Mortem Review, in case of disturbances or interruptions in the process. • Changed Values are “archived” at cyclic intervals, the interval depends on the importance of the values. Examples of cyclic intervals are: every scan interval, every 10 seconds or every hour.
  • 46. Sequence of Events recorders • Local function implemented in Substation Controller that keeps a record of all events in the substation • Not all events are sent to the SCADA system • SER logfiles can be uploaded to the SCADA system to enable analysis
  • 47. SCADA: Control Functions • Individual Device Control • Direct open/close commands to individual devices • Check-back before Operate function. • Control Messages to Regulating Equipment • E.g. Raising or lowering tap changer taps • Sequential Control • E.g. in the case of a set of sequential switching steps to restore power through predefined backup configuration. • Automatic Control • Triggered by an event of lapse of specific time period that invokes a control actions • E.g. automatically changing load tab changer due to voltage set point violation
  • 48. Outline of the lecture • Power System Operation - Centralised Control Applications • SCADA - SCADA architecture & Components - SCADA system functions - Non functional aspects
  • 49. Non functional requirements Functional requirements specifies what is a system suppose to do and Non functional requirements specifies how a system should behave. • Availability - the ratio of uptime to the sum of downtime and uptime. • Maintainability - Repairing time for hardware and software • Scalability - How easy the system could be expand • Security - See SCADA security guest lecture • Interoperability/Openess - how easy can the system be integrated with systems from other vendors
  • 50. Measurement Service Performance Requirements Reference: C37.1-2007 IEEE Standard for SCADA and Automation Systems
  • 51. Non functional requirements - Performance • Desired response time should be designed for each SCADA function. These response time should comply with power system control and operation procedure. - Normal state, quasi-steady-state. Response time should meet the requirements during normal state. - Emergency state, when power system operation constraints are violated. SCADA system are engineered to one specific emergency condition without degrading the performance. Normal status Emergency status Restoration status
  • 52. Status Update Performance Requirements Reference: C37.1-2007 IEEE Standard for SCADA and Automation Systems
  • 53. Status Update Performance Requirements Reference: C37.1-2007 IEEE Standard for SCADA and Automation Systems